Guardhouse



May 26, 1925. 1,539,509

w. RING GUARDHOUSE Filed Jan. 5, 1925 gwmwtoz Patented May 192 5.

- rates WILLIAM rune, or DETROIT, MI'cmeAN.

GUARDHOUSE. T Application filed January 3, 1926. Serial No. 410.

vdesignates generally my improved guard To all whoin, it may concern:

a house, the same comprising the substantially Be it known that I, WILLIAM RING,

I citizen of the cUnited States, residing at cylindrical tower, the top and bottom there- Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of being closed, as illustrated at 3 and 4 of Michigan, have invented certain new and respectively. The tower is constructed of useful Improvements in Guardhouses,' of suitable'bullet proof material, and a door,

access to the interior of'the which the followingis a specification. such as is illustrated at 5, is associated with This invention relates to a guard house, the tower, whereby access to the interior which is adapted to he placed within a buildthereof may be had. The door is located'in ing, such as a jewelry store,'bank, hotel or 3 the wall of the tower, adjacent the lower the like, and has for its principal object portion thereof;

",rovide a bullet-proof enclosure or tower 1n 2 which is stationed a guard, the guard havis associated withthe door so that when the ing a full view of the interior of the part tower is occupied, the door may be locked of the buildingin which the guard house 1s v y the person on the inside, so-that access to placed, through suitable port holes arranged the interiorof thetower from the outside in the wall of the tower. cannot be had. I

One of the important objects of the pres Arranged in spaced relation in the upper cnt invention is toprovide a guard houseof portion of the circular wallof the tower 2 the above mentioned character, which has .are a plurality of port holes, indicated at 6. arranged therein suitable means. for en- A pivotedclosure is associated with each of abling the guard stationed therein give the port holes, and the same comprises a a warning signal when a burglaris 1n the metallic plate, the intermediate portion 7 t r I thereof being disposed within the opening 6,

A further object is to provide a guard the ends of the intermediate portion 7 bein A look of any conventional construction house wherein pivoted closures are associated seated in suitable notches provided therefor with the port holes arranged in the walls of and indicated at 8, whereby theintermediate the tower ing the same in a closed position so that entirely protecting the guard stationed of the tower, while the inner-portion of each therein. e e of the closures is disposed upwardly on the A further object is to-provide a guard inside of the tower, as illustrated at 10. It house of the above mentioned character, is obvious that when the inner portion of the which is simple in construction, inexpensive, closure plate is swung downwardly, so that strong and durable, and further well adapt-' the intermediate portion 7 will be disposed ed for the purposes for which it is deslg- 'in a substantially horizontal. plane, the nated. guard stationed within thetower may view Other objects and advantages of the inthe interior'of the store or the; like in which I vention will become apparent during the the tower is placed, through the port hole.

course of the following description. 0 I a In the accompanying drawings, forming a pivoted closplre plate in a closed positlon part of this specification, and in which like with respect to t same: r p upper inner end 10, for cooperation with a Figure 1 isa side elevation of the guard house embodying. my invention.

tower 2, directly above each of the port holes.

in Figure 2.

Figure 3- is atransverse section, taken ap- A table, of any conventional construction, proximately on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.. is placed'within the tower, and supports a In the drawing, wherein for thepurpose telephone and a switch box 13 and 14 reof illustration is shown the preferred emspectively. The wiring from the telephone bodiment of my invention, the numeral 1] and switch box stands upwardlythrough the comprising the guard house, means portion7 of eachclosure is adapted forpivbeing associated with the closures for boldotal swinging movenient.

The outer portion of each of the closures ard house is disposed downwardly as illustrated at 9, I through the port holes cannot be had, thus adjacent the outside of the cylindrical wall For the purpose of normally holding the p e port holes, each is pronumerals designate like parts throughout the vided with a short piece of chain .11, at its hook 12, secured .on the inner wall of the v Figure 2 is a vertical central sectional This construction is more clearly'illustrated Y view taken therethrough, and I a the thus enabling sufiicient help to be called to.

the store and prevent the burglar from escaping or obtaining anything of value from the store or its occupants. The guard within guard house cannot be seen by the burglar, and furthermore, by constructing the guard house of bullet proof material, the guard is rotected against any possibility of injury, s ould the burglar fire upon theguard house. The portv holes in the tower are of such size'as to permit a barrel of a gun to be placed-therethrough, when the guard finds it necessary to fire upon the burglar. j V

The simplicity of'my device enables the same to vbe constructed at a very low cost,

and will at all times, be strong and durable.

While I have shown the preferred embodiment'of-my invention, it is to be understood that various changes in the size, shape, and arrangement of parts may be resort'edto,

. without departing from the spirit of the inventionor the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A guard house comprising a substantially cylindrical tower of bullet proof material, and closed at its respective ends, a

door in the wall of the tower whereby ac ,cess' to the interior thereof maybe had,

said tower having a plurality of port holes formed in the wall thereof at spaced intervals, and a closure for each port hole, the same comprising a plate, the intermediate portion thereof being disposed within the port hole, the ends of the intermediate portion of the plate being disposed in notches formed in the respective ends of the port hole to facilitate the swinging movement of the plate the .outer portions of each plate being disposed downwardly on the outside of the wall of the tower,.the inner portion of each plate being disposedupwardly adjacent the inner wall of the tower.

2. A guard plate comprising a substantially cylindrical tower of bullet proof material, and closed at its respective ends, a door in the wall of the tower whereby access to the interior thereof may be had, said tower having a plurality of .port holes formed in the wall, thereof at spaced intervals, a 010-. .sure for each port hole, the same comprising a plate, the intermediate portion thereof being disposed within the port hole, the ends of the intermediate portion of the plate being disposed in notches formed in the respective ends of the. port hole to facilitate the swinging movementof the plate, the'outer portions of each plate being disposed downdisposed upwardly adjacent the inner wall of the tower, and means associated with the inner portions of the-closure plate and the inner wall of the tower for locking the clo- -wardly on the outside of the wall of the tower, the'inner portion of each plate being 

